Fats

Fats
Fats are an essential nutritents for:
 * 1) Give our bodies shape
 * 2) for proper growth and healthy skin
 * 3) gives your body a concentrated form of energy
 * 4) cushioning intarnal organs
 * 5) to carry fat soluable vitamins (A, D,.E and K) to the cells
 * 6) insulation balnket for the body

Thirty (30) percent of your daily calorie should come from Fat.

The different kinds of fat are:
 * Saturated - solid at room temperature. You want to avoild this kind of fat in your diet.
 * Monounsaturated - liquid oil at room temeperature such as olive oil. This is best kind of fat.olive oil is monounsaturate
 * Polyundaturated - ;oqiuid oil at room temperature such as corn oil. This is on ok fat.
 * Trans Fat - liquid oil that has been made into a solid. We want to limit this kind of fat in our diet.

Cholestrol is a fat like substance that should be limited in the diet. We make some cholestorol and the rest we eat from animal product.

No more than ten (10) percent of your total daily calorie input should com from saturated fat.

Too much fat in the diet can lead to obesity, diabeties, heart attack, and some cancers.

Somet ways to reduce your fat intake include using fat replacers, change the cooking method to baking, broiling or grilling and watching what you eat carefully. water helps brick down your food

__Cholesterol__: The body makes about 1,000 mg of cholesterol a day. This is a chemical relative to fat which is needed by the body. It is manufactured in the __liver__ and carried in the bloodstream. Plants do **not** contain cholesterol. Cholesterol is found in animal products.
 * Cholesterol**

__Cholesterol Scale__:

 * 200 and under:** Desirable level
 * 200 to 240:** borderline high blood cholesterol
 * 240 and above:** high blood cholesterol